Object Oriented Programming

Course Title: Object Oriented Programming

Course No: BIT153

Nature of the Course: Theory + Lab

Semester: 2

Full Marks: 60 + 20 + 20

Pass Marks: 24 + 8 + 8

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

The course familiarizes students with the concepts of object oriented programming using C++.

Course Objectives

The main objective of this course is to understand the basics of object oriented programming. This course covers the C++ concepts such as objects, class, operator overloading, inheritance and polymorphism, file I/O, exception handling and templates.

Course Contents

1. Introduction to Object Oriented Programming

3 hrs

1.1. Overview of structured and object oriented programming approach

1.2. Characteristics of object oriented languages

2. Basics of C++ programming

5 hrs

2.1. C++ Program Structure

2.2. Character Set and Tokens

2.3. Data Type

2.4. Type Conversion

2.5. Preprocessor Directives

2.6. Namespace

2.7. Input/Output Streams and Manipulators

2.8. Dynamic Memory Allocation with new and delete

2.9. Control Statements

2.10. Functions

Function Overloading

Inline Functions

Default Argument

Pass by Reference

Return by Reference

Scope and Storage Class

2.11. Pointers

Pointer variables declaration & initialization

Operators in pointers

Pointers and Arrays

Pointer and Function

3. Class and Objects

8 hrs

3.1. Class and Object

3.2. Accessing members of class

3.3. Initialization of class object (Constructor)

3.4. Destructor

3.5. Default Constructor

3.6. Parameterized Constructor

3.7. Copy Constructor

3.8. The Default Copy Constructor

3.9. Objects as Function Arguments

3.10. Returning Objects from Functions

3.11. Structures and Classes

3.12. Memory allocation for Objects

3.13. Static members

3.14. Member functions defined outside the class

4. Operator Overloading

7 hrs

4.1. Fundamental of operator overloading

4.2. Restriction on operator overloading

4.3. Operator functions as a class members

4.4. Overloading unary and binary operator

4.5. Data Conversion

Basic to basic

Basic to user-defined

User-defined to basic

User-defined to user-defined

5. Inheritance

7 hrs

5.1. Introduction to inheritance

5.2. Derived Class and Base Class

5.3. Access Specifiers (private, protected, and public)

5.4. Types of inheritance

5.5. Public and Private Inheritance

5.6. Constructor and Destructor in derived classes

5.7. Aggregation

5.8. Ambiguity

6. Virtual Function, Polymorphism, and other C++ Features

5 hrs

6.1. Concept of Virtual functions

6.2. Late Binding

6.3. Abstract class and pure virtual functions

6.4. Virtual Destructors

6.5. Virtual base class

6.6. Friend function and Static function

6.7. Assignment and copy initialization

6.8. Copy constructor

6.9. This pointer

6.10. Concrete classes

6.11. Polymorphism and its roles

7. Function Templates and Exception Handling

4 hrs

7.1. Function templates

7.2. Function templates with multiple arguments

7.3. Class templates

7.4. Templates and inheritance

7.5. Exceptional Handling

Try, throw and catch

Use of exceptional handling

8. File and Streams

6 hrs

8.1. Stream Class Hierarchy

8.2. String I/O

Reading I/O

Writing I/O

Detecting end of file

8.3. Character I/O

8.4. Object I/O

Writing an object to Disk

Reading an object from Disk

8.5. File pointers

Laboratory Works

Students should be able to implement the above mentioned concepts of Object Oriented Programming using C++ language.

1.Lab exercises for Introduction to OOP unit
2.Lab exercises for Basics of C++ programming unit
3.Lab exercises for Class and Objects unit
4.Lab exercises for Operator Overloading unit
5.Lab exercises for Inheritance unit
6.Lab exercises for Virtual Function, Polymorphism, and other C++ Features unit
7.Lab exercises for Function Templates and Exception Handling unit
8.Lab exercises for File and Streams unit

Text Books

1.Robert Lafore, Object Oriented Programming in C++, Fourth Edition, SAMS publications.

Reference Books

1.Deitel and Deitel, C++ How to Program, Third Edition, Pearson Publication.
2.Joyce Farrell, Object-oriented programming using C++, Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning.
3.Herbert Schildt, C++ The Complete Reference, Fourth Edition, Tata McGraw Hill Publication.

Notes:

This syllabus follows the official BIT curriculum of Tribhuvan University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university’s published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.

OOP in C++